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Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1964-08-07

Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1964-08-07, page 01

zJIWyy Serving Columbus, Dayton, Central and Southwestern Ohio
Vol. 42, No. 32
FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1964 — 29 AV, 5724
¦*4
39
'':;;?rii:?/T;:!3;'
Ambassador Levels Charges Against Russ Anti-Semitism
Geneva (JTA)—Presentation of documented charges of So¬ viet mistreatment df Russian .Jewry at tho current session of the- United Nations Economic and Social Council .session here this week provoked an angry denial from the Soviet delegate.
The charges were made by Moshe Bartur, Israel's perma¬ nent Ambassador at Geneva, who outlined the plight of Soviet Jewry In detail. He called the situation in the Soviet Union,
UJA YOUNG LEADERS DEPART FOR EUROPE-ISRAEL SURVEY
A group of 85 young American Jewish communal representatives from ali sections of the United States is shown about to depart from Kennedy International Airport via El Al Airlines last week to participate in the Fourth Annual Young Leadership Mission of the United Jewish Appeal. The group, led by Rabbi I-lerbert A. Friedman, UJA Executive Vice-chairman, will make an intensive three- and-a-half week survey of absorption needs in Israel and refugee-aid programs in France and
Italy. Membership In the Mission is by invi¬ tation to men and women in the 25-to-40 age bracket who have demonstrated leadership potential in home communities. Mission mem¬ bers, who come from 28 different cities, are paying their own way to see at first-hand the immigrant-aid programs of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Inc. and the life-sustaining pro¬ grams of the Joint Distribution Committe, both beneficiaries of the nationwide cam¬ paigns of the UJA,.
which he did not mention by name, a "very acute case of anti-Semit¬ ism." He referred to the virulently anti-Semitic book, "Judaism With out Embellishment," published by the Ukrainian Academy of Scien ces, which was withdrawn after £ worldwide storm of protest. Then he said that two similar books were later published and distribu ted by the State Publishing House for Political Literature in Moscow Rejecting assertions that critic-
British Concern Grows Over Nasser's War Preparations
New Yorlc (JTA)—-The British Government is "increasingly concerned" over Nasser's four-pronged campaign for the de¬ struction of Israel, Terrence Prittle, diplomatic correspondent for "The Guardian," a British newspaper, reports in the Augyst issue of "The Atlantic Monthly." . ¦¦
In the article entitled, "Bombshop in the Nile: Target Is¬ rael," Mr. Prittie says the four main features of Nasser's cam¬ paign are the removal of the Brit
ish from militaiy bases in Aden, Cyprus and Libya; the building of his conventional arms strength; a crash program to produce ground- to-ground rockets; and production of weapons of genocide of both nu¬ clear and subnuclear types.
The correspondent says that in conventional arms today Egypt has superiority over Israel, but he points out that "two wars against Israel have convinced Nasser that the Egyptians man for man are no match for the IsraeUs. Therefore even an immense superiority in conventional weapons and in man¬ power (the population of Egypt is ten times that of Israel) would not guarantee victory in a third war."
"This is why the Egyptians with the vital help of West German and other foreign scientists and tech¬ nicians have been working on a crash program for the production of long and medium range rockets at their factory 333 at Heliopolis,
a few miles east of Cairo," Mr. Prittie stresses.'
Three main types of rockets are being developed in Egypt, the ar¬ ticle says. The Egyptians are also building light naval craft somewhat smaller than frigates to be equip¬ ped with launching pads for rock¬ ets. These vessels, Prittie reports, could play an important part in a saturation attack on Israeli cities.
"It is believed that Nasser in¬ tends to build between 8(X) and 1,000 rockets for an assault on Is¬ rael," the report continues. "This will take him roughly two years at the present estimated rate of progress. The key to his success is the continued presence in Egypt, in his employ, of the two dozen West German scientists and five to six hundred West German and other foreign technicians who have been there for the past three years."
Referring to Israeli represepta- tions in Bonn' for the recall of the
German scientists and technicians, Mr. Prittie says: "There is a powerful pro-Arab lobby in Bonn where a section of the Christian Democratic Party and virtually the whole Free Democratic Party are opposed to any action which could harm West German trade interests in the Middle East.
According to the correspondent, Nasser's rocket program and con¬ ventional weapons would be suffi¬ cient to secure the total military defeat of Israel, but this is not Nasser's only objective, since he has "sworn to blot out Israel com¬ pletely." "To leave any Jewish ghetto in Palestine would be to keep alive the claim and hope for a Jewish National State," Mr. Prittie writes, "This is why Nasser is con-, teniplating using weapons of geno¬ cide against Israel."
Nasser's inner circle of assis¬ tants, the correspondent reports, have been considering the possibil¬ ity of a nuclear bomb of the Hiro¬ shima type, the possibility of bri¬ bing officers of the British Air Force to . fly British-based planes to Cairo with nuclear bombs, the possibility of using "radioactive rubbish bombs," and the possibility of exploding small packages of strontium 90.
300 TO BE HONORED AT WORLD'S FAIR COUNCIL DAY
Three hundred members of the various sections of the National Council of Jewish Women will be honored at Council Day at the World's Fair, on Tuesday, Aug. 11. it was announced today by Mrs. Blair Ruben, Columbus Section president.
The afternoon reception at the Better Living Center will also com¬ memorate the founding of the Na¬ tional Council of Jewish Women by Mrs. Hannah Greenebaum Solomon at the parliament of religions at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.
Mrs. Joseph Horchow of Colum¬ bus, chairman of the national pub lie relations committee, has been asked to be in the receiving line to welcome Council members.
Among the Council's earliest pio'iiSering efforts in service and education was the formation of an imigrant aid station at Ellis Island in 1904 at the request of the United States government, to help new¬ comers arriving alone in America.
The National Council of Jewish Women is the world's oldest major Jewish women's organization, and has one hundred twenty three thou¬ sand memhers throughout the Uniled States.
ism of the Soviet Union stemmed oijly from hostility to its ideology, he said Communist sources had also sharply criticized anti-Semitic developments in Rusisia.
V.N. Bcndryshev, the Soviet re¬ presentative, took the floor several times during Bartur's presentation. Delegates from several western Countries, including the United States, also joined in the discussion, expressing their surprise that the conditions cited by Bartur still existed 15 years after proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The Soviet delegate took the floor to deny the. charges and to a.ssert that there were now in Rus¬ sia 97 .synagogues, that Jews were treated like all other Soviet citi¬ zens, that Jews who had emigrated from Russia to Israel wanted to return and that Israeli Jews vis¬
iting the Soviet Union wanted to remain.
Bartur look the floor to reply and said he did not wish to dis¬ cu.ss the Soviet delegate's assertion nf 97 synagogues but he wanted to remind ECOSOC that a 1956 United Nations report had stated there were then 450 synagogues in Russia and that, judging from Bendry- shev's statement to ECOSOC, one had to deduce that some 350 syn¬ agogues had been shut down since 1956.'
Referring to "monstrous exam¬ ples" of anti-Semitic propaganda in officially-sponsored books, he said that if public opinion in Russia was "guided by state publishing houses and academies of science, there is indeed every reason for urgent alarm."
Another Jewish spokesman. Dr. Maurice L. Perlzweig of the World Jewish Congress, told the meeting that his organization "views with anxious disquiet ,the failure of the United Nations so far to complete even the draft of a text of a declar¬ ation on the eradication of religious intolerance." i
POOLSIDE LUNCHEON IS PUNNED BY HADASSAH WOMEN FOR ISRAE BONDS
Mrs. Abe Yenkin, Israel Bond chairman for Hadassali an¬ nounced that Mrs. Alvis Shulman of New York, wiil be guest speaker at the poolside terrace luncheon to be held on 'Wednes¬ day, Aug. 2G at 11:30 a.m.,- at the home of Mrs. Herman Katz, 725 Fairway Blvd.
Mrs. Harold Harris is in charge of hostesses; Mrs. Ben Shafran is hospitality chairman, and reservations are being handled by Mrs. Joseph Baskin,
Chronicling
The News
Editorial 2
Real Estate 4
Society 6
Shopping Guide 8
Synagogues 8
Sports 9
Teen Scene 10
and Mrs. Harry Mathless. Mrs. Irving Seff is in charge of publicity. Mrs. Norbert Kruger, past presi¬ dent of Hadassah, and chairman of the Women's Division of Israel Bonds stated: "Throughout the past 13 years, Israel Bonds have helped to supply the pioneering risk cap¬ ital to finance dramatic new ven¬ tures. Israel bonds helped finance the construction of the oil pipeline from Elath to Haifa; the Yarkon irrigation project, now being sup¬ plemented by the more compre¬ hensive National Water Project to tap the waters of the Jordan River; the building of new development towns in the Negev; the enlarge¬ ment and development of ports; the exploration and discovery of oii, copper, natural gas; the expansion of the Dead Sea Potash Works as the foundation of a growing chem-' ical industry; and now the begin¬ ning of a new and challenging pro¬ ject in the reclamation and settle¬ ment of the Central Galilee."
The redemption of the first Is¬ rael Savings Bonds began last year. The State of Israel paid out
?;24,500.000 in principal and interest on Israel Bonds which matured last year. Redemption payments, on the basis, of 150 cents on the dollar, continue as other Bonds fall due.
Israel Third Development Bonds pay 4 percent annually and are available in Coupon Bonds from $500 to $100,000 and in 12 year savings bonds from $100 to $10,000 which will mature at 160 percent of the issue amount.
"It pays to invest in Israel Bonds," says Mrs. Yenkin. "They are a good investment in a land of promisd that has turned promise ito performance. Israel Bonds pro¬ mote economic progress under free- dpm, thereby enabling the people of Israel to build a democracy will¬ ing and able to share in the pro¬ gress of the free world.
"Women hold the key to devel¬ oping democracy in Israel and the key to restoring human dignity to our people. We in Hadassah must' strive to broaden the base of bond purchasers, until every member of the Jewish community is an Israel bondholder."
LETTER TO THE EDITOR ...
Rabbis Arrested In St. Augustine Explain Their Motives
Dear Friend,:
St. Augustine is the oldest city in the United States. It was here on St. Augustine's Day. Aug. 28, 1565, that Pedro Menendez de Aviles first sighted land. In 1965 it will celebrate its 400th' an¬ niversary—indeed it has request¬ ed federal funds to enhance this historic observance. St. August¬ ine has other distinguishing characteristics. In American history books yet to be written, this small, neatly kept Florida community will long be remem¬ bered as a symbol of a harsh, rigidly segregated, IClandomin- ated, backward-looking city which mocked the spirit of the doughty African-born, dark-pig- mented priest for whom it was
named.
St. Augustine is a tourist town. By far the highest per¬ centage of its income comes from the visitors who walk through its quaint streets star¬ ing at "excpvations" from the 18th century only now being re¬ stored. Most visitors stop at the Slave Market, supposedly only a relic of bygone days. Ti'ue, they now longer sell slaves in that market, but let no one be deceived into thinking that there no longer exists among this town's wtiite residents the mental attitude and the psy¬ chology which first put slaves on those trading blocks. The spirit of racial arrogance per¬ sists and is reinforced by the
sway of terror long exerted by hooded and unhooded mobsters.
"We went to St. Augustine in' response to the appeal of Mar¬ tin Luther King addressed to the CCAR Conference, in which he asked us to join with him in a creative witness to our joint convictions of equality and racial justice.
We were arrested on Thurs¬ day, June 18, 1964. Fifteen of us were arrested while praying in an integrated group in front of Monson's Restaurant. Two of us were arrested for sitting down at a table with three Ne¬ gro youngsters in the Chimes Restaurant. We pleaded not guilty to the charges against us.
We came to St. Augustine
mainly because we could nut stay away. We £ould not pas.s by the opportunity to achieve'
a moral goal by moi'ai means
a rare modern privilege wiiich has been the glory of the non violent struggle for civil right.s.
We came because we could not stand silently by our brother's blood.
We came as Jews who re¬ member the millions of faceless people who stood quietly, watch ing the smoke rise from Hitler's crematoria. We came because we know that, second only to silence, the greatest danger to man is loss of faith in man's" capacity to act.
Here in St. Augustine we have seen the deptlis of anger, re¬
sentment and fury; we have sCen faces that expressed a deep implacable hatred. What disturbs us more deeply is the largo number of decent citizens who have stood asidf, unable to bring themselves to act, yet knowing in their hearts that this cause is ri{!ht and that it must inevitably triumph.
We believe, though wo could not count on it in advance, that oui- prosonco and actions hero hiU'o boon of practical effect. rho>' liavo romindod the em- batllod Negroes licro that they aro not isolatjid and alone. The conscience of tho wicked has boon troubled, while that of the righteous h a s ^ gained new strength.
We came from different back¬ grounds and with different de¬ grees of involvement. And yet for all of us these brief, tension-packed hours of open¬ ness and communication turned an abstract social issue into something personal and imme¬ diate. We shall not forget the people with whom we drove, prayed, marched, slept, ate, demonstrated and were arrest¬ ed. How little we know of these people and their struggle. Wo pray that we may remain more »on.tltlve and more alive as u roault.
Eucli of U" bus In this ex-
poiioncu bivotnu a little more
the puraoii u bit more the rabbi
(continued on'p«g« 4)

zJIWyy Serving Columbus, Dayton, Central and Southwestern Ohio
Vol. 42, No. 32
FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1964 — 29 AV, 5724
¦*4
39
'':;;?rii:?/T;:!3;'
Ambassador Levels Charges Against Russ Anti-Semitism
Geneva (JTA)—Presentation of documented charges of So¬ viet mistreatment df Russian .Jewry at tho current session of the- United Nations Economic and Social Council .session here this week provoked an angry denial from the Soviet delegate.
The charges were made by Moshe Bartur, Israel's perma¬ nent Ambassador at Geneva, who outlined the plight of Soviet Jewry In detail. He called the situation in the Soviet Union,
UJA YOUNG LEADERS DEPART FOR EUROPE-ISRAEL SURVEY
A group of 85 young American Jewish communal representatives from ali sections of the United States is shown about to depart from Kennedy International Airport via El Al Airlines last week to participate in the Fourth Annual Young Leadership Mission of the United Jewish Appeal. The group, led by Rabbi I-lerbert A. Friedman, UJA Executive Vice-chairman, will make an intensive three- and-a-half week survey of absorption needs in Israel and refugee-aid programs in France and
Italy. Membership In the Mission is by invi¬ tation to men and women in the 25-to-40 age bracket who have demonstrated leadership potential in home communities. Mission mem¬ bers, who come from 28 different cities, are paying their own way to see at first-hand the immigrant-aid programs of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Inc. and the life-sustaining pro¬ grams of the Joint Distribution Committe, both beneficiaries of the nationwide cam¬ paigns of the UJA,.
which he did not mention by name, a "very acute case of anti-Semit¬ ism." He referred to the virulently anti-Semitic book, "Judaism With out Embellishment," published by the Ukrainian Academy of Scien ces, which was withdrawn after £ worldwide storm of protest. Then he said that two similar books were later published and distribu ted by the State Publishing House for Political Literature in Moscow Rejecting assertions that critic-
British Concern Grows Over Nasser's War Preparations
New Yorlc (JTA)—-The British Government is "increasingly concerned" over Nasser's four-pronged campaign for the de¬ struction of Israel, Terrence Prittle, diplomatic correspondent for "The Guardian," a British newspaper, reports in the Augyst issue of "The Atlantic Monthly." . ¦¦
In the article entitled, "Bombshop in the Nile: Target Is¬ rael," Mr. Prittie says the four main features of Nasser's cam¬ paign are the removal of the Brit
ish from militaiy bases in Aden, Cyprus and Libya; the building of his conventional arms strength; a crash program to produce ground- to-ground rockets; and production of weapons of genocide of both nu¬ clear and subnuclear types.
The correspondent says that in conventional arms today Egypt has superiority over Israel, but he points out that "two wars against Israel have convinced Nasser that the Egyptians man for man are no match for the IsraeUs. Therefore even an immense superiority in conventional weapons and in man¬ power (the population of Egypt is ten times that of Israel) would not guarantee victory in a third war."
"This is why the Egyptians with the vital help of West German and other foreign scientists and tech¬ nicians have been working on a crash program for the production of long and medium range rockets at their factory 333 at Heliopolis,
a few miles east of Cairo," Mr. Prittie stresses.'
Three main types of rockets are being developed in Egypt, the ar¬ ticle says. The Egyptians are also building light naval craft somewhat smaller than frigates to be equip¬ ped with launching pads for rock¬ ets. These vessels, Prittie reports, could play an important part in a saturation attack on Israeli cities.
"It is believed that Nasser in¬ tends to build between 8(X) and 1,000 rockets for an assault on Is¬ rael," the report continues. "This will take him roughly two years at the present estimated rate of progress. The key to his success is the continued presence in Egypt, in his employ, of the two dozen West German scientists and five to six hundred West German and other foreign technicians who have been there for the past three years."
Referring to Israeli represepta- tions in Bonn' for the recall of the
German scientists and technicians, Mr. Prittie says: "There is a powerful pro-Arab lobby in Bonn where a section of the Christian Democratic Party and virtually the whole Free Democratic Party are opposed to any action which could harm West German trade interests in the Middle East.
According to the correspondent, Nasser's rocket program and con¬ ventional weapons would be suffi¬ cient to secure the total military defeat of Israel, but this is not Nasser's only objective, since he has "sworn to blot out Israel com¬ pletely." "To leave any Jewish ghetto in Palestine would be to keep alive the claim and hope for a Jewish National State," Mr. Prittie writes, "This is why Nasser is con-, teniplating using weapons of geno¬ cide against Israel."
Nasser's inner circle of assis¬ tants, the correspondent reports, have been considering the possibil¬ ity of a nuclear bomb of the Hiro¬ shima type, the possibility of bri¬ bing officers of the British Air Force to . fly British-based planes to Cairo with nuclear bombs, the possibility of using "radioactive rubbish bombs," and the possibility of exploding small packages of strontium 90.
300 TO BE HONORED AT WORLD'S FAIR COUNCIL DAY
Three hundred members of the various sections of the National Council of Jewish Women will be honored at Council Day at the World's Fair, on Tuesday, Aug. 11. it was announced today by Mrs. Blair Ruben, Columbus Section president.
The afternoon reception at the Better Living Center will also com¬ memorate the founding of the Na¬ tional Council of Jewish Women by Mrs. Hannah Greenebaum Solomon at the parliament of religions at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893.
Mrs. Joseph Horchow of Colum¬ bus, chairman of the national pub lie relations committee, has been asked to be in the receiving line to welcome Council members.
Among the Council's earliest pio'iiSering efforts in service and education was the formation of an imigrant aid station at Ellis Island in 1904 at the request of the United States government, to help new¬ comers arriving alone in America.
The National Council of Jewish Women is the world's oldest major Jewish women's organization, and has one hundred twenty three thou¬ sand memhers throughout the Uniled States.
ism of the Soviet Union stemmed oijly from hostility to its ideology, he said Communist sources had also sharply criticized anti-Semitic developments in Rusisia.
V.N. Bcndryshev, the Soviet re¬ presentative, took the floor several times during Bartur's presentation. Delegates from several western Countries, including the United States, also joined in the discussion, expressing their surprise that the conditions cited by Bartur still existed 15 years after proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The Soviet delegate took the floor to deny the. charges and to a.ssert that there were now in Rus¬ sia 97 .synagogues, that Jews were treated like all other Soviet citi¬ zens, that Jews who had emigrated from Russia to Israel wanted to return and that Israeli Jews vis¬
iting the Soviet Union wanted to remain.
Bartur look the floor to reply and said he did not wish to dis¬ cu.ss the Soviet delegate's assertion nf 97 synagogues but he wanted to remind ECOSOC that a 1956 United Nations report had stated there were then 450 synagogues in Russia and that, judging from Bendry- shev's statement to ECOSOC, one had to deduce that some 350 syn¬ agogues had been shut down since 1956.'
Referring to "monstrous exam¬ ples" of anti-Semitic propaganda in officially-sponsored books, he said that if public opinion in Russia was "guided by state publishing houses and academies of science, there is indeed every reason for urgent alarm."
Another Jewish spokesman. Dr. Maurice L. Perlzweig of the World Jewish Congress, told the meeting that his organization "views with anxious disquiet ,the failure of the United Nations so far to complete even the draft of a text of a declar¬ ation on the eradication of religious intolerance." i
POOLSIDE LUNCHEON IS PUNNED BY HADASSAH WOMEN FOR ISRAE BONDS
Mrs. Abe Yenkin, Israel Bond chairman for Hadassali an¬ nounced that Mrs. Alvis Shulman of New York, wiil be guest speaker at the poolside terrace luncheon to be held on 'Wednes¬ day, Aug. 2G at 11:30 a.m.,- at the home of Mrs. Herman Katz, 725 Fairway Blvd.
Mrs. Harold Harris is in charge of hostesses; Mrs. Ben Shafran is hospitality chairman, and reservations are being handled by Mrs. Joseph Baskin,
Chronicling
The News
Editorial 2
Real Estate 4
Society 6
Shopping Guide 8
Synagogues 8
Sports 9
Teen Scene 10
and Mrs. Harry Mathless. Mrs. Irving Seff is in charge of publicity. Mrs. Norbert Kruger, past presi¬ dent of Hadassah, and chairman of the Women's Division of Israel Bonds stated: "Throughout the past 13 years, Israel Bonds have helped to supply the pioneering risk cap¬ ital to finance dramatic new ven¬ tures. Israel bonds helped finance the construction of the oil pipeline from Elath to Haifa; the Yarkon irrigation project, now being sup¬ plemented by the more compre¬ hensive National Water Project to tap the waters of the Jordan River; the building of new development towns in the Negev; the enlarge¬ ment and development of ports; the exploration and discovery of oii, copper, natural gas; the expansion of the Dead Sea Potash Works as the foundation of a growing chem-' ical industry; and now the begin¬ ning of a new and challenging pro¬ ject in the reclamation and settle¬ ment of the Central Galilee."
The redemption of the first Is¬ rael Savings Bonds began last year. The State of Israel paid out
?;24,500.000 in principal and interest on Israel Bonds which matured last year. Redemption payments, on the basis, of 150 cents on the dollar, continue as other Bonds fall due.
Israel Third Development Bonds pay 4 percent annually and are available in Coupon Bonds from $500 to $100,000 and in 12 year savings bonds from $100 to $10,000 which will mature at 160 percent of the issue amount.
"It pays to invest in Israel Bonds," says Mrs. Yenkin. "They are a good investment in a land of promisd that has turned promise ito performance. Israel Bonds pro¬ mote economic progress under free- dpm, thereby enabling the people of Israel to build a democracy will¬ ing and able to share in the pro¬ gress of the free world.
"Women hold the key to devel¬ oping democracy in Israel and the key to restoring human dignity to our people. We in Hadassah must' strive to broaden the base of bond purchasers, until every member of the Jewish community is an Israel bondholder."
LETTER TO THE EDITOR ...
Rabbis Arrested In St. Augustine Explain Their Motives
Dear Friend,:
St. Augustine is the oldest city in the United States. It was here on St. Augustine's Day. Aug. 28, 1565, that Pedro Menendez de Aviles first sighted land. In 1965 it will celebrate its 400th' an¬ niversary—indeed it has request¬ ed federal funds to enhance this historic observance. St. August¬ ine has other distinguishing characteristics. In American history books yet to be written, this small, neatly kept Florida community will long be remem¬ bered as a symbol of a harsh, rigidly segregated, IClandomin- ated, backward-looking city which mocked the spirit of the doughty African-born, dark-pig- mented priest for whom it was
named.
St. Augustine is a tourist town. By far the highest per¬ centage of its income comes from the visitors who walk through its quaint streets star¬ ing at "excpvations" from the 18th century only now being re¬ stored. Most visitors stop at the Slave Market, supposedly only a relic of bygone days. Ti'ue, they now longer sell slaves in that market, but let no one be deceived into thinking that there no longer exists among this town's wtiite residents the mental attitude and the psy¬ chology which first put slaves on those trading blocks. The spirit of racial arrogance per¬ sists and is reinforced by the
sway of terror long exerted by hooded and unhooded mobsters.
"We went to St. Augustine in' response to the appeal of Mar¬ tin Luther King addressed to the CCAR Conference, in which he asked us to join with him in a creative witness to our joint convictions of equality and racial justice.
We were arrested on Thurs¬ day, June 18, 1964. Fifteen of us were arrested while praying in an integrated group in front of Monson's Restaurant. Two of us were arrested for sitting down at a table with three Ne¬ gro youngsters in the Chimes Restaurant. We pleaded not guilty to the charges against us.
We came to St. Augustine
mainly because we could nut stay away. We £ould not pas.s by the opportunity to achieve'
a moral goal by moi'ai means
a rare modern privilege wiiich has been the glory of the non violent struggle for civil right.s.
We came because we could not stand silently by our brother's blood.
We came as Jews who re¬ member the millions of faceless people who stood quietly, watch ing the smoke rise from Hitler's crematoria. We came because we know that, second only to silence, the greatest danger to man is loss of faith in man's" capacity to act.
Here in St. Augustine we have seen the deptlis of anger, re¬
sentment and fury; we have sCen faces that expressed a deep implacable hatred. What disturbs us more deeply is the largo number of decent citizens who have stood asidf, unable to bring themselves to act, yet knowing in their hearts that this cause is ri{!ht and that it must inevitably triumph.
We believe, though wo could not count on it in advance, that oui- prosonco and actions hero hiU'o boon of practical effect. rho>' liavo romindod the em- batllod Negroes licro that they aro not isolatjid and alone. The conscience of tho wicked has boon troubled, while that of the righteous h a s ^ gained new strength.
We came from different back¬ grounds and with different de¬ grees of involvement. And yet for all of us these brief, tension-packed hours of open¬ ness and communication turned an abstract social issue into something personal and imme¬ diate. We shall not forget the people with whom we drove, prayed, marched, slept, ate, demonstrated and were arrest¬ ed. How little we know of these people and their struggle. Wo pray that we may remain more »on.tltlve and more alive as u roault.
Eucli of U" bus In this ex-
poiioncu bivotnu a little more
the puraoii u bit more the rabbi
(continued on'p«g« 4)